HowTo: Use mp3 for text/mms/sms notifications

[Guest scuba264]

I had someone send me a PM asking about how to use mp3s for their notifications.

Copy the mp3 file you want into \Application Data\Sounds\. You can do this by either syncing you phone to your pc with a usb cable and exploring to that directory and copying your mp3 there, or from within your phone if you've got mp3s loaded already. You can use the built in file browser or I prefer Total Commander if you plan to do a lot of moving files, registry edits, etc...

After you copy, you'll most likely need to soft reset your phone. It seems it loads the listing on startup, so just copying to that directory won't make the song show up.

Now goto Start>>Settings>>Sounds & Notifications. Click the Notifications tab and you'll see the "Event" label with a dropdown of all the events that can have sound. Select the one you want and you're good to go.

I don't know if theres a way to tell it to look in another directory(like where you store all your music) or not. I could poke around the registry and see if theres a value I could change, but I probably wouldn't recommend it. I don't know how it would handle scanning and listing like 3000 mp3s that you may have on your phone but I doubt it would be good.

Also, if you set an mp3, I'm not positive but I think it plays the entire file even if you check the text. So before you go and set In A Gadda Da Vida or Freebird as your text sound, you may want to think that over :D

[Guest Yunabeco]

I usually dump a MP3 in the \Windows\ folder (or to be precise, I copy it to My Storage, then to Windows from the device, since the Windows folder takes a year to load from a PC). Didn't even have to soft-reset, just restart the Sound & Notifications control panel applet.

There's a registry setting for that; I don't know what it precisely is, but in SKTools (Tune Up) there is a Ringtone files entry, which is set to \Windows\ by default here.

[Guest kav]

I usually dump a MP3 in the \Windows\ folder (or to be precise, I copy it to My Storage, then to Windows from the device, since the Windows folder takes a year to load from a PC). Didn't even have to soft-reset, just restart the Sound & Notifications control panel applet.

There's a registry setting for that; I don't know what it precisely is, but in SKTools (Tune Up) there is a Ringtone files entry, which is set to \Windows\ by default here.

changing that registry entry will make the ringtone app redundant, and all the ringtones will have to be reassigned, and each time u will try to open the setting to change ringtones, it will tell u that file is corrupted . i have tried this before and had to hard reset so that everything came back to normal.

maybe u can use the method of adding mp3 ringtones, by placing then in a folder called " My Ringtones" on the My Storage drive (8/16gb), thereby saving device memory and also having a lot more space for many ringtones.

[Guest bga7x]

changing that registry entry will make the ringtone app redundant, and all the ringtones will have to be reassigned, and each time u will try to open the setting to change ringtones, it will tell u that file is corrupted . i have tried this before and had to hard reset so that everything came back to normal.

maybe u can use the method of adding mp3 ringtones, by placing then in a folder called " My Ringtones" on the My Storage drive (8/16gb), thereby saving device memory and also having a lot more space for many ringtones.

Yeah for ring tones but its different for Texts and emails and mms!

[Guest omniaK]

put your ringtones in the storage card inside of "My Ringtones"

put your text,email,and MMS MP3's in the root of "My Storage"

they will appear in the list fine, I have 3 very small edited MP3s sitting in the root of "my storage" they work perfectly for me...absolutely no need for any registry play. :D

ps, you really want a very small mp3 because I tried a full one once for my texts and it will play the WHOLE track lol :lol:

[Guest methosivanhoe]

also, much easier, there is a piece of software called "Ringo Ringtone Manager" that works perfectly for Windows Mobile devices...

I use it on my Omnia and it runs perfectly

Easily works with MP3 & WMA tones.

Set personal ringtones and message alert tones for your friends.

Set different ringtones and message alert tones for address book groups.

Easily silence calls from callers or groups - such as unknown or no caller id calls.

Set your phone to “Do Not Disturb” at night, at the weekend, or even on vacation

http://www.electricpocket.com

Pretty cool software

M

[Guest bigdaddykane]

I got another question.... why do you have to hear the entire freaking ringtone when i get a message.....Every single win mo device is the same I was in a meeting about a year ago.... forgot to silence my ringer and all of the sudden F*&$ tha Police by N.W.A. goes off and i spent 10 seconds fumbling around trying to rip the battery out of my Moto Q9c... I have searched every forum know to man and no luck

[Guest kav]

I got another question.... why do you have to hear the entire freaking ringtone when i get a message.....Every single win mo device is the same I was in a meeting about a year ago.... forgot to silence my ringer and all of the sudden F*&$ tha Police by N.W.A. goes off and i spent 10 seconds fumbling around trying to rip the battery out of my Moto Q9c... I have searched every forum know to man and no luck

usually the tone put for texts are small, people dont put full songs for texts by common sense, this is why win mo plays the whole tone since it plays it only once for the message notifications while the ringing notifications go in a loop cycle. win mo doesnt measure the duration length of ur tone, it just plays it.

so as many people figured it out, it is more clever to put a small edited tone to message notifications.

[Guest bpivk]

usually the tone put for texts are small, people dont put full songs for texts by common sense, this is why win mo plays the whole tone since it plays it only once for the message notifications while the ringing notifications go in a loop cycle. win mo doesnt measure the duration length of ur tone, it just plays it.

so as many people figured it out, it is more clever to put a small edited tone to message notifications.

But it's always funny when people put whole mp3's for sms message notifications. You can see a lot of people bashing their phones on college when they get a sms.  :D That's what you get if you don't use comon sense.

[Guest kav]

But it's always funny when people put whole mp3's for sms message notifications. You can see a lot of people bashing their phones on college when they get a sms. :( That's what you get if you don't use comon sense.

this is always funny,, but poor them, what an embarassement when this happens. :lol: :D:):lol: LOL